Right. Pipers start learning on the practice chanter, which is much less expensive. There are plenty of threads here discussing what to look for.
As far as good-but-relatively-inexpensive pipes, I had a set of Gillanders & MacLeod that were top notch. J. Higgins sells them. I think they're about $1200 now.
"To the make of a piper go seven years of his own learning, and seven generations before. At the end of his seven years one born to it will stand at the start of knowledge, and leaning a fond ear to the drone he may have parley with old folks of old affairs." - Neil Munro
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